Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Studies of Saint Lucy, Various Figures, a Grotesque and a Cat. Verso (II, 44): Studies of Five Figures and Two Grotesques
ca. 1508-1512
7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (191 x 142 mm)
Pen and brown ink over black chalk; verso: pen and brown ink.
II, 43 (recto) - II, 44 (verso
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
According to Carminati (1994), the same study of Saint Lucy is found on Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. n. 6783 recto).
According to Carminati (1994), the same study of Saint Lucy is found on Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. n. 6783 recto).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 17. Verso: Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 18.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 36.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 43-44.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 260-261, D36-37, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 43-44.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 260-261, D36-37, repr.
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